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- Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
- Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'
- I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Are there really 750 million mentally ill?
- Chan said "these are not insurmountable problems" and "the way forward is bright and solidly paved." A "scaling up" of the professions will cost just 20 cents per person per year. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations
- Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. And, they say, they listened in and even transcribed couples' phone sex, The New York Times reports. ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Consumers score a partial win against Walmart
- Walmart has done a 180 on its earlier decision to pull the plug on its DRM servers (thereby locking customers' music collection to whatever PC it happened to be on at the time) and decided to keep the DRM servers running - for now. Important Information About Your Digital Music Purchases ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Kevin Rose: advertising, can you Digg it?
- Digg faces two big challenges going forward. How to expand its user-base and therefore content beyond its geeky roots, and in turn, how to increase ad revenue. Addressing the latter, co-founder Kevin Rose says the social news site is exploring "Diggable ads". by Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology
- It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding
- The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Google is at your service
- Google is at your serviceWe're not too clear on how an ISP worksI construct my web site then upload it to Google?Google holds every article,blog and comment entry forever?Google replaces my browser with theirs---Credibility is a trait that must be earnedHas Google earned that? To a very small degree, yes...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law
- Candians who vote to re-elect the Conservative government next week will also be voting for an archly pro-copyright agenda. According to the party's official platform released yesterday: A re-elected Conservative government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyright legislation that strikes the appropriate balance among the rights of...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- $236m judgment against spammer couple
- $236m judgment against spammer coupleSadly, it's pointlessSadly, in reality such a judgment is pointless.Let them pay it in jail time$236m is a fair bill to run up. I say let them paying it back in jail time.Let's even be generous and say 1 day in jail will reduce the bill...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Google tries to stop you from sending mail you will regret
- It appears that Google has added a new feature to Gmail Labs that tries to make sure you are in the right state of mind before sending messages -- particularly helpful when you have maybe had a few too many drinks, and are about to send an email that would...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- C'mon, Vista really isn't that bad
- C'mon, Vista really isn't that badRE: C'mon, Vista really isn't that badI agree, it eases the transition from the digital to the physical world for computer users and seems especially geared towards newer computer users and explaining steps and giving more information about the system itself and any software installed....
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- 2009 Mazda CX-7 Grand Touring
- Photo gallery:Mazda CX-7 Grand TouringEarlier this year, we tested a Mazda's CX-9. So when we heard that we were getting a CX-7 Grand Touring in the CNET garage, we braced for more of the same, only smaller. The tiny Mazda crossover didn't disappoint; the CX-7 has a lot in common...
- Product reviews 2008-10-07
- Antitrust suit against Apple, AT&T moves forward
- Antitrust suit against Apple, AT&T moves forwardCDMA is deadGSM and related technologies have almost 90% share of the mobile market. Why will Apple spend time and money to make a model that will work on that network. Only Verizon and partially Sprint amongst the major networks in North America use...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.
- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.Telecommute JobsI see these articles appear every few months. They always talk about how great this concept is, and how it is a great deal for both companies and employees. However, my husband has been contacted by headhunters several hundred times...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Antitrust suit against Apple, AT&T moves forward
- A federal judge has ruled that an antitrust suit against Apple and A&T over exclusivity deals for the iPhone may move forward, Ars Technica reports. Apple and AT&T signed a five-year exclusive deal but only told consumers they would have to sign up for a two-year...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)
- How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows)Adrian - why would Apple write good Windows software?Apple has historically had an edge with video editing / graphical design applications. Now, since they've moved to an Intel platform, any hardware advantages...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Whisky, Whiskey, and the Semantic Web ?
- Huge ontologies and taxonomies that attempt to boil the ocean and describe 'the sum of human knowledge' tend to make me deeply uncomfortable. At the other end of the scale, though, there is clearly a place for reaching some shared understanding on how we describe things. Where does the line...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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